An international research team has identified a highly virulent and infectious strain of HIV that likely began circulating in the Netherlands in the 1990s and has infected more than 100 people. Left ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers used the CAST/EiJ mouse model to test whether genetic differences between clades 1, 2a, and 2b of the mpox virus contribute to ...

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is considered a zoonotic pandemic, as SARS-CoV-2 has been ...

(KRON) — Bay Area medical experts are seeing early signs that COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the rise again. They are encouraging masking, testing and vaccines to prevent the spread during the ...

Research led by the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute has discovered a novel, highly virulent strain of HIV in the Netherlands. The new HIV variant results in a higher viral load and faster ...

As evidence mounts that the omicron variant is less deadly than prior COVID-19 strains, one oft-cited explanation is that viruses always evolve to become less virulent over time. The problem, experts ...

A number of factors influence the way the virulence of a virus — that is, how harmful it is to its host — affects its ability to survive and spread; in some cases, higher virulence may help a virus ...

Researchers from the US National Institutes of Health and Bernard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, infected three cynomolgus macaques with the 1976 Mayinga strain and another ...

Researchers have discovered a highly virulent and more rapidly progressing strain of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS — but insist it is “no cause for alarm” because of modern treatments against the ...

A new HIV variant with higher virulence and more damaging health impacts has been discovered in a new study. As the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated, new mutations in viral genetic ...

Researchers who voluntarily stopped work on a potent strain of influenza they created in the lab are hoping to end the moratorium on their studies. In January 2012, scientists agreed to halt their ...